Only a week or so ago I published a column on the likelihood that economic espionage occurs in Australia, and the possibility it may explain some unusual financial market movements that we occasionally observe. Today the FT reports:
“Chinese actors are the world’s most active and persistent perpetrators of economic espionage,” the [Pentagon] report said...A November report prepared by US intelligence agencies said that concerted cyber espionage by China and Russia posed “significant and growing threats” to American economic power and national security.
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